Download Complete Album; The Rolling Stones (1986) Singles Collection - The London Years
The Singles Collection: The London Years is a compilation album of Rolling Stones music released by former manager Allen Klein's ABKCO Records (who usurped control of the band's Decca/London material in 1970) after the band's departure from Decca and Klein.
Released in 1989, Singles Collection: The London Years is a triple album of every Rolling Stones single—and their B-Sides—mostly in their original mono mixes (at least as of the 2002 reissue), in both the UK and US encompassing their entire era with Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States—hence the album's title.
The original collection was produced by Andrew Loog Oldham, and digitally compiled and prepared under his supervision by P. D. Rain and Jody Klein.
With a range from 1963 to 1971, the set begins with their very first UK single, Chuck Berry's "Come On", and runs to Sticky Fingers' "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses" (which Allen Klein shares release rights with The Rolling Stones).
The only omissions are four B-sides from 1970 and 1971. "Bitch" and "Let It Rock" (released in the UK on the "Brown Sugar" single) and "Sway" (B-side to "Wild Horses"). Allen Klein did not have release rights to this material when this compilation was released. Also not included was "Natural Magic", a Ry Cooder instrumental, released as the B-side to the 1970 Mick Jagger single "Memo from Turner". These are available on the box set Singles 1968–1971 except "Let It Rock" which is only available on the Rarities 1971–2003 album.
The set was released at a timely juncture, just a couple of weeks before The Rolling Stones' comeback album Steel Wheels was due for release after a significant break, and months following their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Going platinum, the album reached #91 in the US.
In 2007, Steven Van Zandt placed Singles Collection: The London Years #1 on his list of the most essential albums of all time.[citation needed]
In August 2002, Singles Collection: The London Years was issued in a new remastered Compact Disc and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records.
Line-up:
Mick Jagger - vocals, harmonica
Keith Richards - guitar
Brian Jones - guitar, harmonica, sitar, dulcimer, piano, Mellotron (1962-69)
Bill Wyman - bass (1962-93)
Charlie Watts - drums (1963-present)
Mick Taylor - guitar (1969-74)
Ron Wood - guitar (1974-present)
Track list:
Disc One
1 Come On 1:50
2 I Want to Be Loved 1:51
3 I Wanna Be Your Man 1:42
4 Stoned 2:08
5 Not Fade Away (Featuring Phil Spector) 1:48
6 Little by Little (Featuring Phil Spector) 2:37
7 It's All Over Now 3:26
8 Good Times, Bad Times 2:32
9 Tell Me 2:46
10 I Just Want to Make Love to You 2:16
11 Time Is on My Side [Regent Studios version] 2:58
12 Congratulations 2:27
13 Little Red Rooster 3:03
14 Off the Hook 2:33
15 Heart of Stone 2:43
16 What a Shame 3:02
17 The Last Time 3:39
18 Play With Fire 2:11
19 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 3:46
20 The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man 3:20
21 The Spider and the Fly 3:38
22 Get Off of My Cloud 2:54
23 I'm Free 2:24
24 The Singer Not the Song 2:26
25 As Tears Go By 2:43
Disc Two
1 Gotta Get Away 2:10
2 19th Nervous Breakdown 3:57
3 Sad Day 3:01
4 Paint It, Black 3:45
5 Stupid Girl 2:55
6 Long Long While 3:00
7 Mother's Little Helper 2:46
8 Lady Jane 3:10
9 Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? 2:33
10 Who's Driving Your Plane 3:12
11 Let's Spend the Night Together 3:27
12 Ruby Tuesday 3:11
13 We Love You (Featuring John Lennon and Paul McCartney) 4:36
14 Dandelion 3:47
15 She's a Rainbow (Featuring Nicky Hopkins) 4:09
16 2000 Light Years From Home (Featuring Nicky Hopkins) 4:42
17 In Another Land (Featuring Nicky Hopkins) 2:54
18 The Lantern (Featuring Nicky Hopkins) 4:24
19 Jumpin' Jack Flash 3:40
20 Child of the Moon (Remake) (Featuring Nicky Hopkins) 3:10
Disc Three
1 Street Fighting Man 3:19
2 No Expectations 4:00
3 Surprise, Surprise 2:29
4 Honky Tonk Women 3:02
5 You Can't Always Get What You Want 4:52
6 Memo From Turner (Featuring Ry Cooder and Jack Nitzsche) 4:06
7 Brown Sugar 3:48
8 Wild Horses 5:40
9 I Don't Know Why (a.k.a. Don't Know Why I Love You) 3:02
10 Try a Little Harder 2:17
11 Out of Time 3:21
12 Jiving Sister Fanny 3:20
13 Sympathy for the Devil 6:24
All tracks on discs one and two were produced by Andrew Loog Oldham and tracks 1–4 of disc one co-produced with Eric Easton and tracks 15–18 produced by The Rolling Stones and tracks 19–20 produced by Jimmy Miller. All tracks on disc three produced by Jimmy Miller, except tracks 3, 10, and 11 produced by Andrew Loog Oldham and track 6 produced by Jack Nitzsche.
About the Rolliing Stones;
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in April 1962 by guitarist and harmonica player Brian Jones, pianist Ian Stewart, vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards. Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early lineup.
Jones initially led the band, but after Jagger and Richards began writing almost all songs for the band, and as Jones became increasingly erratic, Jagger and Richards assumed band leadership. In 1969 Mick Taylor joined the band on guitar shortly before Jones' untimely death until quitting in 1974. Since then guitarist Ronnie Wood has been with the band. Stewart was taken from the official lineup in 1963 to continue as the band's road manager and occasional keyboardist until his death in 1985. Wyman left in 1990 and was replaced by Darryl Jones as the primary bassist.
The Rolling Stones were first popular in Europe and became popular in North America during the British Invasion of the early sixties. The Rolling Stones have released 22 studio albums in the UK (24 in the US), eight concert albums (nine in the US) and numerous compilations; and have album sales estimated at more than 200 million worldwide. (Wikipedia)
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Mr Fantasy - Traffic
Dear Mr. Fantasy is the debut album by English rock band Traffic. It was released in 1967. For the recording, group members included Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, Chris Wood, and Dave Mason, however Mason left the band before the album was released. The album reached the number 16 position in the UK album chart on 30 December 1967, and reached number 88 in the American Billboard charts
Considered by far the strangest and most art rock style album that Traffic released, Mr. Fantasy didn't gain much more than a cult following for Traffic at the time. Critics seemed to like the album, though, and most said it was clear that Steve Winwood and Traffic were good at putting together semi-mainstream psychedelic rock, except this album was not quite mainstream enough. By their next release, the eponymous Traffic, the band was said to have worked through that.
This album features even more horns, flutes, and less rock-style instruments than most of Traffic's future releases. The sitar was used much more in this album than any other later Traffic albums, undoubtedly because of Dave Mason's influence.
The first US version of the album on United Artists Records had a different title Heaven Is In Your Mind and a different cover that featured 3 members of the group without Dave Mason. The title was quickly changed back to Mr. Fantasy but the new cover remained until Island Records re-issued the UK version in the late 1970s. Both the US and UK editions of the album were released in substantially different stereo and mono mixes.
For the original US edition the group changed the album substantially. The song order was changed and a short looping snippet of the group's November 1967 single "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush" was added between most of the songs. The US LP also added three songs from the group's UK singles, "Paper Sun" and "Hole In My Shoe" and "Smiling Phases" (b-side) while deleting two Dave Mason songs "Hope I Never Find Me There" and "Utterly Simple."
The final track on the US album "We're A Fade, You Missed This' is actually the ending of the full length version of "Paper Sun." For most of the songs there are significant differences between the stereo and mono mixes. One song in particular, "Giving to You", actually was released in 3 different versions, including similar mono and stereo versions from the U.K. album, plus a very different mono U.K. b-side mix, which also was later included on the U.S. mono LP. The special U.K. b-side mix includes lyrics sung by Winwood during the introduction which are not heard on any other version.
The album was engineered by Phil Brown who, when asked what was his favourite memory of engineering, responded: "Recording Dear Mr Fantasy, one o'clock in the morning, November 1967.
Released December, 1967
Recorded April–November 1967, Olympic Studios, London
Genre Psychedelic rock
Length 33:54
Label Island, United Artists, Polydor
Producer Jimmy Miller
Singles from Mr. Fantasy;
1. ""Paper Sun" b/w "Giving to You""
Released: May 1967, Island WIP6002
2. ""Hole in My Shoe" b/w "Smiling Phases""
Released: August 1967, Island WIP6017
3. ""Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" b/w "Coloured Rain""
Released: November 1967, Island WIP6025
4. ""No Face, No Name, No Number" b/w "(Roamin' in the Gloamin' with) 40,000 Headmen""
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Original UK album
- "Heaven Is in Your Mind" (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, Chris Wood) – 4:16
- "Berkshire Poppies" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 2:55
- "House for Everyone" (Dave Mason) – 2:05
- "No Face, No Name, No Number" (Capaldi, Winwood) – 3:35
- "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 5:44
- "Dealer" (Capaldi, Winwood) – 3:34
- "Utterly Simple" (Mason) – 3:16
- "Coloured Rain" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 2:43
- "Hope I Never Find Me There" (Mason) – 2:12
- "Giving to You" (Capaldi, Mason, Winwood, Wood) – 4:20 (album version)
- Mono bonus tracks from the US 2000 CD release
- "Paper Sun" (Capaldi, Winwood) – 4:15
- "Giving to You" (Capaldi, Mason, Winwood, Wood) – 4:12 (different U.K. mono single mix, with lyrics sung by Winwood)
- "Hole in My Shoe" (Mason) – 2:54
- "Smiling Phases" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 2:43
- "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" (Capaldi, Mason, Winwood, Wood) – 2:18
Original US album
- "Paper Sun" (Capaldi, Winwood) – 3:26
- "Dealer" (Capaldi, Winwood) – 3:13
- "Coloured Rain" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 2:46
- "Hole in My Shoe" (Mason) – 3:04
- "No Face, No Name, No Number" (Capaldi, Winwood) – 3:38
- "Heaven Is in Your Mind" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 4:22
- "House for Everyone" (Mason) – 2:05
- "Berkshire Poppies" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 2:59
- "Giving to You" (Capaldi, Mason, Winwood, Wood) – 4:18 (mono version of the U.S. album has the different U.K. single mix, with lyrics sung by Winwood)
- "Smiling Phases" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 2:44
- "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 5:33
- "We're a Fade, You Missed This" (Capaldi, Winwood) – :53
- Stereo bonus tracks from the US 2000 CD release (Heaven Is In Your Mind)
- "Utterly Simple" (Mason) – 3:17
- "Hope I Never Find Me There" (Mason) – 2:09
- "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" (Capaldi, Mason, Winwood, Wood) – 2:35
- "Am I What I Was or Am I What I Am" (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood) – 2:32
There are actually four different versions of the album when taking into account both the UK and US track listings and the different stereo and mono mixes. All have recently been re-issued on CD. The 1999 UK re-issue features the UK version in stereo and the US album in mono as bonus tracks. In 2000 the US stereo version was re-issued on CD with its original title Heaven Is In Your Mind plus stereo bonus tracks. The same year the original UK mono version was also released in the US as Mr Fantasy with mono bonus tracks.
Labels:
British Bands,
Island,
Polydor,
Progressive Rock,
Traffic,
United Artists
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